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Boberoni

11-03-2003, 06:06 PM

Our Shop superviser drilled the locks out of the Clean Snowmobile Teams 'SnapOn' Cabinets. Reason, they hadn't given him a key. There was nothing he needed that was in there. Just on another power trip. He goes on one every week - almost like he has something to prove.

He then prompty shut the shop down for three days, right after there team leader called him a prick.

If anyone has any ideas how to get a non-union shop supervisor fired short of cutting off ones thumb, send it over. This guy needs to go.

- Michigan Tech FSAE

Boberoni

11-03-2003, 06:06 PM

Wizard

11-03-2003, 06:49 PM

One of our machinist was asked to leave because of nuddie material on his computer, just a suggestion. So if some would happen to show up......

vinHonda

11-03-2003, 07:22 PM

Our long time shop supervisor was fired because you get the right people on your side. We didn't really want to fire him, though he was a dick, but our own admin on our teams side didn't like him. Any way we see it....we hooked up with the local college and use their 50 lathes and 30 mills. They're considered a sponsor.

Vinh

University of Toronto Formula SAE Racing Team
www.fsae.utoronto.ca (http://www.fsae.utoronto.ca)

clausen

11-03-2003, 08:35 PM

A supervisor with something to prove?

I dont believe it!

Regards

Paul Clausen
Uni of Adelaide

gug

11-03-2003, 11:21 PM

steal everything from those snapon cabinets and flog them off. put the money back into the clean snowmobile team as sponsorship from the fsae team, and hopefully you can blackmail/sue the supervisor for a new set of tools.

failing that, i like the porn idea...

- the problem with the world is stupidity. i'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety lables off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

steve d.

11-04-2003, 02:19 PM

one of the best ways to get ANYTHING machined/welded/fabricated...local technical colleges...

use them as a sponsor...

usually you only have to pay for materials.

sjd
never thought of that while I was in school...

Michael Jones

11-05-2003, 12:55 PM

Or, you can just do the right thing and document any abuses of power that you have noticed. Note that this works better when you are essentially in the right. If you call him a prick, you give him leverage. If you don't and complain to his superiors about abuses of power and general uncooperativeness, and make these complaints regular and well-documented, it's usually enough to at least affect a change in attitude, if perhaps not turfing him completely.

The porn option is always open, yes, but it's underhanded. Bad karma. Especially if you get caught loading it on his computer, in which case it's your ass.

---
Michael Jones
Coordinator, Student Project Teams, College of Engineering

Cornell Racing
http://fsae.mae.cornell.edu

Boberoni

11-06-2003, 09:05 AM

We have documented safety violations and general inconsistant behaviour on his part. The reply we recieved from the associate dean was, "Twenty year old kids think they're invincible, but we know that's not true." - qouted from the school paper.

They think the student vehicle teams are a bunch of rule-breaking misfits who need to be punished. It sucks because we do everything they want and they still cut us down. The Mechanical department is in our corner although they are all under the employ of the associate dean so it makes it a little difficult for good ol' wholesome "rocking of the boat."

Someone forgot who was paying who I suppose.

Boberoni

mx6_shifty

11-06-2003, 12:01 PM

Take the advice of Homer Simpson - roll him up in a carpet and throw him off a bridge.

Matt

Sam Zimmerman

11-06-2003, 01:32 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Boberoni:
We have documented safety violations and general inconsistant behaviour on his part. The reply we recieved from the associate dean was, "Twenty year old kids think they're invincible, but we know that's not true." - qouted from the school paper.

They think the student vehicle teams are a bunch of rule-breaking misfits who need to be punished. It sucks because we do everything they want and they still cut us down. The Mechanical department is in our corner although they are all under the employ of the associate dean so it makes it a little difficult for good ol' wholesome "rocking of the boat."

Someone forgot who was paying who I suppose.

Boberoni<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Usually these impressions are based in fact. Unfortunately they are often based upon the events of previous years and the current students have no control over the history of the program. What I preach to our team, however, is that they are in control of their current actions and they must do whatever they can to leave the program with a better reputation each year. While I am not sure if posing questions, no matter how tongue in cheek, about how to get a staff member fired will cause long-term harm to your FSAE program, I am certain that it can do no good. Personally, if any member of our team were to air dirty laundry in a public forum I would ask for a retraction and then lobby for their removal from the team.

Sam Zimmerman
Vandals Racing (http://www.uidaho.edu/~racing)

Bulldog R

11-06-2003, 03:59 PM

Find out his email address, then register him for porn email.. His email account will get clogged with email and the administrator will see it.. Just a suggestion!

jerktaculus

11-07-2003, 09:51 AM

Vinh mentioned our insane "going to talk your ear off and try to redesign your car - then freak out for no reason" supervisor problem.

Towards the end we sent in sacrificial newbies to make bad grindy noises and break things so he would be distracted yelling at them while the technically proficient worked .. thank god that time is over .. i don't think it attributed to his leaving but surely to his descent into complete insanity - then he got fired.

Jer.K.